st: RE: survey completion "flag"

Have a look at -egen, rlast()-.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Marilyn Matevia
> I am a very new user of Stata, so I apologize in advance if this is
> a dumb question. I'm still learning how Stata "thinks" (compared to
> SAS) and can't figure out how to tackle this:
>
> I have a data set of responses to a very long (170 questions) survey
> with many nested skip patterns, and about 2200 respondents. After
> working out the skip codes, I still have many "missing" observations
> for some items, and figure these are due to incomplete surveys. I
> want to create some kind of "completion flag" to see which
> respondents make it to the end of the survey, and - if they don't -
> to see which question is the respondent's last (which is complicated
> by the skip patterns).
>
> I'm just not coming up with a sensible way to do this in Stata. Can
> someone point me in the right direction?
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